Jodi Picoult Books Reading Group. discussion

I just got The Pact and I'm about to curl up and start it...anyone interested in joining me??

I read it a few weeks ago. What did you think?

I am not done with it yet. So far so good. Buuut I did watch the movie years ago so I'm kinda familiar with the story. I have about 150 pages to go.

The book is much better, no big surprise there. The movie leaves out some pretty important stuff.

I didn't realize this was a movie. Lifetime, or another production company? I'd like to see it. The book is really interesting. I work with young adults, and found it very real to how they relate to the world, adults and relationships. When you all finish it, we should chat more!

I didnt know it was a movie either- although I'd love to see how they did it. I loved the book- again, you could could feel for every character in the book. Picoult does such a good job at letting you see the perspectives of everyone- and make you understand them.
Although, there were parts in the book that I got upset with...its way more in depth than a suicide pact- and i kind of wish she would have gone deeper with these issues.

I couldn't agree more that its not just a suicide pact.. The relationship between the two seemed so strong. Not just a young couple in love, but two people who grew up together and knew everything about one-another. I also didn't know there was a movie. Anyone know where to find it??

It is a Lifetime movie, to my knowledge it is not available to rent. It is definitely not the best movie in the world. I was very disappointed, I think they left out too many important details. Then again I thought that book was so great that it may have been hard to make it into a made for tv movie.

This was my least favorite of her books, so its interesting to see that other people enjoyed it. I thought it felt very hopeless and I didn't get a good feeling from it like I do with her other books.

this had a movie? i didn't know.. anyway, the book was great. different kind of love story. i loved the ending. i always do.haha.

i really liked The Pact. but one that i didn't like so well that most people seem to love is Plain Truth. i also liked The Tenth Circle, which lots of people have told me they didn't like. different strokes, i guess. :)

I recently started The Pact and I only 39 pages in and I am already really liking it. I think this one is gonna be my new favorite.

I just started it last night! I just read 30 pages or so, but I like it so far!

Oh...I didn't know there was a movie! I'll have to rent it. I loved the book. I read it last summer and couldn't put it down.

I still have a long way to go, but I am really enjoying this book so far. I just want to see how it all turns out! I wish I had more time to read!

I've just finished it! It's spectacular. You're in for a treat.

I loved The Pact. It and My Sister's Keeper are my favorites.

But I didn't know there is a movie. Now I want to watch the movie.

Spoiler alert.

I just finished this book last night and wrote a review on it. I'd be interested to know what other people think really happened. I think Emily pressed Chris' finger and shot herself. She got the strength to do it because he was there with her. I don't think he would have done it otherwise. Neither one could do it by themselves.

Just finished The Pact and I loved it. What a great story - I really liked reading the trial part and I really liked the going back and forth between the past and the present - another great one from Jodi!

New to site and this group. Picoult is my most favorite author. I picked up The Pact about 7 yrs ago and was hooked on her. I have gone back and read some she wrote before this and have read them all since. I've never been disappointed, only that the books end.

I read this book in about May, and i LOVED it. I was hooked from the beginning to the very end and just completley fell in love with the characters. I love Picoult's style of writing and the changes in tense throughout the novel.. Definetly my favourite love story :)

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING!!! its true that its a little bit nonsence, but i still think its awsome!

I enjoyed this book. Do you think the relationship (in terms of one partner giving more than the other) was similar to her book Mercy?

I haven't read Mercy yet.

The Pact is my second favourite of Jodi's.

I just bought this one last week, along with Mercy and Perfect Match. I plan on reading it when I finish Mercy

I have read the book but not yet watched the movie. Honestly Emily drove me crazy, don't know..Chris for me is just someone being in love without knowing how to do it in the right way.

I didn't care for The Pact. I thought that Emily was selfish and Chris was dumb. I kept thinking, I would never have done what he/she just did, are you kidding me?!

I loved that the Pact started out so captivating on the first page. That is something I look for to keep me hooked to a book. I love Picoult! Plain Truth is my favorite and then My Sister's Keeper and then The Pact. It's so hard to pick my favorites with her books though. I've liked all the ones I have read so far!! :)

I loved The Pact also. I read it in 1999 and it was the first time I ever came across a book by her. I was immediately drawn in and devoured the book. I could not put it down.

Hi Mellisa..
the Pact was also the first Jodi's book that I read..

That's one of my favorite Jodi Picoult books I've ever read...so much better than the movie. It's well worth reading.

I was disappointed in the movie too. I thought that they could've done a better job with that, though Megan Mullany did fantastic i thought. I loved the pact. It had me constantly wondering if he really did kill her or if she did it herself.

I really enjoyed this book. I'm not really into watching any of the movies on these books because they always seems to leave out important information and i'm always disappointed, but of course i'm always curious.

I like this book, but not necessarily love it, like her more recent ones. Is the movie really not worth watching?

I was disappointed in the movie for The Pact. I saw the movie on lifetime a few years back before i was able to read the book and i was really disappointed with how much they changed the movie. Now, i thought the movie they did of The Tenth Circle was pretty close to the book.

Stacey, I was still very disappointed in the movie The Tenth Circle. I just didn't think it captured the mood I felt in the book and the whole Alaska part was left out and that defined the dad sooo much in the book. You are right, they did follow the book fairly closely...the part that they put in the movie anyway. But it was still an overall disappointment.

dara

I bought the pact just a few weeks ago, and i LOVED it. It was a wonderful book, and in then end, i ended up almost resenting Emily. i just cant cope with how selfish she was. But i think that is part of why its such a good book. Just the sheer emotion, to it all.

I am on my third book of hers, Vanishing acts, and WOW. i mean it is really good. im not done yet but i've got high expectations for this one!!

Yes Chandani...I agree....about resenting Emily, and my emotions flying everywhere, while reading this book..LOL
Another Picoult book that left me taking a break for a couple days, before starting a new book.
(Nineteen Minutes was like that also...needed a break afterwards...left my mind spinning)!!

This is the first book I picked up by Picoult and loved every minute of it! Made me remember how high school sweetheart love made me feel. The part that sticks in my head the most is just after they break up and Em heads over to Chris's house where she tells him that she just broke up with her boyfriend and wanted to talk to her best friend about it but unfortunately they were the same person. Brings back a lot of memories for me :)

I think I may have found a new favourite author to add to my list.

I just finished The Pact this afternoon and am not sure what I think yet. I liked it...of course I love all of JP's books so far...but I kinda felt that it ended rather abruptly. I wanted to know a little bit about what happened to Chris after the trial...what happened to Melanie and Gus. It also didn't have the twist at the end that most of her books do, or at least I wasn't really surprised by the ending like I usually am. But it was an incredible love story that leaves most of us yearning for such a solid and deep commitment.

I finished this book today and I loved it. I was so sad that it couldn't go on forever. One of the greatest I've read in a while!

I've read it a few times, one of my favorite books!

The Pact was my first JP book. I read it in high school and it was a definet page turner!

So far this one is my favorite,though I have only read 3 of her books. I loved the relationships and the families.

I am in the middle of this one right now. Still decideing if I like this one or 19 miniutes better. They are the only 2 I have read by her so far and I love love love them lol

i saw the movie on lifetime and yeah...... the book is way better.

I read it a couple of years ago. Love all her books.

Angela wrote: "I didn't realize this was a movie. Lifetime, or another production company? I'd like to see it. The book is really interesting. I work with young adults, and found it very real to how they relate ..."

I SAW THE MOVIE A FEW YEARS AGO AND WAS DISAPPOINTED, ALTHOUGH MEGAN MULLANY DID A GREAT JOB! SOMETIMES YOU CAN CATCH LIFETIME RUNNUNG IT IF YOUR LUCKY. I LOVED THE PACT SO MUCH. THAT AND MY SISTERS KEEPER ARE MY FAVORITES BY PICOULT.

Alexis wrote: "This was my least favorite of her books, so its interesting to see that other people enjoyed it. I thought it felt very hopeless and I didn't get a good feeling from it like I do with her other bo..."

The Pact was actually the first book I read by JP and my favorite. This is the book that got me reading the rest of her books. It was the only book I read in a 24 hour period.

I have not seen the movie, but have seen adaptations of her other books - Plain Truth and Tenth Circle. Of course, not as good as the book. I've heard on a Barnes & Noble interview that My Sister's Keeper is different.